Happy New Year, Everyone! Some of you have no doubt been 'in the area' where this photograph was made - maybe the same tripod holes? - although I didn't see any when I made this image...Good guesses! Let's see if you can guess this one...

To love this comment, log in above 12/31/2003 1:04:50 PM

Donna S. Domitrek

I am sure this is Monument Valley, Arizona.

To love this comment, log in above 1/3/2004 9:00:59 PM

Donna S. Domitrek

I am sure this is Monument Valley, Arizona.

To love this comment, log in above 1/3/2004 9:01:49 PM

Patrick Campbell

This was taken near Lone Pine, California in the Alabama Hills. That's Mount Whitney in the background, just left of center. (A well-known photograph of Ansel Adams was taken from near this location.)

To love this comment, log in above 1/4/2004 9:14:52 AM

Brenda Tharp

You're right, Patrick! Not as many people know that area, even with Mt. Whitney in the background! It's such a great place to photograph - so many unique viewpoints. Yes, Ansel did some nice work in that area - Mt. Tom was the famous one that I can think of, with large rocks in the foreground - that's further north, but I think he also did some work right in the Alabama Hills, he must have!

Brenda

To love this comment, log in above 1/4/2004 7:47:38 PM

Darwin A. Mulligan

Mileage marker 13 going to Monument Valley

To love this comment, log in above 1/5/2004 6:49:24 AM

Chris Mork

Is this stretch of road where they filmed a part of the movie "Forrest Gump"? I'll have to get a video capture... it looks like the part where Forrest quits his cross-country run, with the big group of runners following him. He stops and says something like "I'm tired, I think I'll go home now."

Does anybody have the video to compare it?

To love this comment, log in above 3/17/2004 6:10:19 PM

Patrick Campbell

Brenda, those are both great photos!!! I'm sorry to be slow to respond. I've been to Lone Pine before but it has been a long time. The photo of Ansel Adams I was thinking of shows a snow covered Mt. Whitney in the background, a very dark Alabama Hills in the middle, and a horse munching grass in the foreground. The light spotlights Mt. Whitney and the horse. I have seen a print of the "straight" negative, and one of the hills has an "L" on it, which he eliminated in the musuem print.

To love this comment, log in above 3/17/2004 9:31:04 PM

Brenda Tharp

Thanks - glad you like them! It's pretty humorous how many people always thought how "pure" Ansel was in his work, but he did a lot of manipulation in the darkroom - it was the 'performance' of the 'musical score', I think he called it. I remember that L in the straight neg, too.